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“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.
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SERIES 2 EPISODE 165: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Justice Samuel Alito should wake up tomorrow in Gitmo. Or in a hospital prison ward being examined for illness, mental or otherwise.
He and the other Conservative members of the Supreme Court are as dangerous to the future of this country and its citizens and its freedoms and its representative form of government, as any terrorists who have ever lived. If presidents knew they might be prosecuted for little things like trying to overturn a valid election and illegally staying in office, Alito told the lawyer representing Jack Smith, they would be way more likely to try to overturn a valid election and illegally stay in office. So, if you want to preserve democracy, you CAN’T prosecute a former president for trying to overturn a valid election and illegally staying in office.
THAT is the constitutional position of the leading justice on the Supreme Court, the ones Trump’s sheep follow, echoing almost word-for-word, things that the mad traitor Trump has posted on his social media feed about persecutions and retributions and retirements. This is Samuel Alito telling you that the way to insure peaceful transitions of power is: you can’t prosecute a lame duck president who partially – and nearly FULLY – disrupted the peaceful transition of power.
It sounds like something Joseph Heller CUT from his novel Catch-22 as too stupid to be useful as political satire.
And it just went downhill from there. They asked Trump's lawyer if assassination of the opposing presidential candidate or a military coup might be considered a president's "official acts" and he said yes.
Ultimately, what the six conservatives on this destructive, fascist court hinted at yesterday, was how far they would go to prostitute themselves to rule FOR Trump in any case that comes before them. We’ve already seen them erase the clear mandate in the 14th Amendment because they felt it would deny American democracy the right to vote itself out of existence. We have now heard them try to cobble together any bullshit they had in their brains to immunize Trump for his countless crimes. But we have also been forewarned that if a case comes before THIS court relative to THIS election, they will figure out what is best for Trump and make up the reasons why.
They WILL.
After yesterday, you and I now KNOW this.
ALSO: The gag order Trump keeps violating in New York will require another hearing with Justice Merchan. But not until next Wednesday. Because we all know we have all the time in the world. On the other hand, Trump addressed all his many legal cases late yesterday and sounded terrible. Breathless. You know how old he sounded? 206!
B-Block (24:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: For the first time they all come from one newspaper, for misdeeds revealed in one article. They are New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elizabeth Bumiller, writer Peter Baker, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger, and they are the vindictive little shits who could help cost us democracy. Because as Politico reports, Sulzberger has ordered the paper to fixate on Joe Biden's age as payback for Biden refusing to give The Times a one-on-one interview. Apparently Sulzberger thinks when Trump comes to round up the liberals, intellectuals, and reporters, everybody at The Times will be issued a pass.
C-Block (38:50) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Deliberately chosen to have nothing to do with Trump or politics or The Times, his wonderful story of a loathed practical jokester: "Meet Birdey Dogged."
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425 - ALITO SHOULD WAKE UP TOMORROW IN GITMO - 4.26.24 Fri, 26 Apr 2024
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424 - TRUMP'S ALREADY WON TODAY'S SUPREME COURT 'PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY' CASE - 4.25.24 Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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423 - TRUMP COULD FACE A MONTH IN JAIL FOR CONTEMPT - 4.24.24 Wed, 24 Apr 2024
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422 - NOW TRUMP WANTS HIS MOBS TO OCCUPY THE COURTHOUSE - 4.23.24 Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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421 - TRUMP MUST GO TO JAIL FOR IGNORING THE GAG ORDER - 4.19.24 Fri, 19 Apr 2024
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420 - TRUMP IS AN IDIOT WHO THINKS JIMMY KIMMEL AND AL PACINO ARE THE SAME GUY - 4.18.24 Thu, 18 Apr 2024
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419 - THE NEW NORMAL: NAP TIME WITH DON SNORELEONE - 4.17.24 Wed, 17 Apr 2024
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418 - DROWSY J. TRUMP FALLS ASLEEP AT HIS OWN TRIAL - 4.16.24 Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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417 - WE IN L.A. MEDIA LET O.J. SIMPSON GET AWAY WITH IT - 4.12.24 Fri, 12 Apr 2024
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416 - ARIZONA ABORTION BAN CAVES IN ON TRUMP - 4.11.24 Thu, 11 Apr 2024
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415 - TRUMP HINTS AT PROSECUTING BIDEN FOR 'STEALING' 2020 ELECTION - 4.10.24 Wed, 10 Apr 2024
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414 - TRUMP'S STUNNING UNFORCED ERROR ON ABORTION - 4.9.24 Tue, 09 Apr 2024
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413 - BIDEN 52 TRUMP 48 - 4.5.24 Fri, 05 Apr 2024
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412 - TRUMP LIED ABOUT TALKING TO THE GARCIA FAMILY. OR HALLUCINATED IT - 4.4.24 Thu, 04 Apr 2024
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411 - TRUMP: I WILL FEDERALIZE STATE AND LOCAL COPS - 4.3.24 Wed, 03 Apr 2024
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410 - TRUMP STOCHASTIC ASSASSINATION THREAT AGAINST BIDEN - 4.2.24 Tue, 02 Apr 2024
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409 - GOP THREATENS TO CUT OFF NBC ACCESS OVER RONNA - 3.29.24 Fri, 29 Mar 2024
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408 - REPORT: NBC TRIED TO THROW JEN PSAKI UNDER THE BUS TO SAVE RONNA McDANIEL - 3.28.24 Thu, 28 Mar 2024
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407 - TRUMP IS SO SICK HE'S NOW MAKING UP WORDS; RONNA, GONE-A - 3.27.24 Wed, 27 Mar 2024
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406 - TRUMP GOES NUTS, COMPARES HIMSELF TO JESUS - 3.26.24 Tue, 26 Mar 2024
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405 - VALET'S J6 TESTIMONY: TRUMP IGNORED ASHLI BABBITT SHOOTING - 3.22.24 Fri, 22 Mar 2024
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404 - TRUMP WON'T DENY TRYING TO GET THE $464M FROM RUSSIA OR SAUDIS - 3.21.24 Thu, 21 Mar 2024
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403 - TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON ORGY OF ANTISEMITISM - 3.20.24 Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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402 - TRUMP ATTACKS WITNESS, VIOLATES GAG ORDER. JAIL HIM. - 3.19.24 Tue, 19 Mar 2024
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401 - CHRIST! WILL SOMEBODY BRING TRUMP TO JUSTICE ALREADY? - 3.15.24 Fri, 15 Mar 2024
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400 - RFK JR'S VP CHOICE AARON RODGERS IS A SANDY HOOK DENIER - 3.14.24 Thu, 14 Mar 2024
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399 - RFK JR WANTS AARON RODGERS AS VP; HUR SELF-IMMOLATES - 3.13.24 Wed, 13 Mar 2024
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398 - WHO OWNS TRUMP AND HOW SICK IS HE? (HE MISPRONOUNCED 'PUTIN') - 3.12.24 Tue, 12 Mar 2024
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397 - BIDEN SOTU: I'LL HAVE WHAT HE'S HAVING - 3.8.24 Fri, 08 Mar 2024
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396 - THE SOTU ADDRESS BIDEN SHOULD GIVE: WE MUST KICK TRUMP'S ASS - 3.7.24 Thu, 07 Mar 2024
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395 - SCOTUS CREATES WAY TO DISQUALIFY TRUMP AFTER THE ELECTION - 3.6.24 Wed, 06 Mar 2024
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394 - TRUMP APPEARS TO HAVE "FLUENT APHASIA" - 3.5.24 Tue, 05 Mar 2024
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393 - WHAT HAPPENS IF THE COURT CREATES "PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY?" - 3.1.24 Fri, 01 Mar 2024
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392 - MY BROTHER RICHARD LEWIS IS GONE - 2.29.24 Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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391 - MICHIGAN: TRUMP UNDERPERFORMS, BIDEN OVERPERFORMS - AGAIN 2,28.34 Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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390 - BOB COSTAS NEEDS TO SHUT THE EFF UP ABOUT JOE BIDEN - 2.27.24 Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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389 - FBI BIDEN "INFORMANT" SMIRNOV ARRESTED AGAIN! - 2.23.24 Fri, 23 Feb 2024
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388 - I THINK THE FBI 'BIDEN INFORMANT' SMIRNOV IS FLIPPING - 2.22.24 Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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387 - BREAKTHROUGH! CNN CALLS IT "THE CRAZY SHIT TRUMP SAYS" - 2.21.24 Wed, 21 Feb 2024
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386 - TRUMP ISSUES NEW TERROR THREAT - 2.20.24 Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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385 - BULLETIN: PUTIN MURDERS NAVALNY - 2.16.24 Fri, 16 Feb 2024
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384 - THE PHOTO THAT COULD SEND TRUMP TO PRISON - 2.16.24 Fri, 16 Feb 2024
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383 - KC SHOOTING: EVERY DAY IS NOW THE ANNIVERSARY OF MASS MURDER - 2.15.24 Thu, 15 Feb 2024
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382 - "THE BIDEN AGE PLOT" - 2.14.24 Wed, 14 Feb 2024
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381 - GARLAND MUST STOP HUR'S PLANS TO TESTIFY TO HOUSE GOP - 2.13.24 Tue, 13 Feb 2024
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380 - GARLAND, KAGAN, BETRAY DEMOCRACY IN BIDEN PROBE AND AT SCOTUS - 2.9.24 Fri, 09 Feb 2024
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379 - SUPREME COURT TRUMP/14th AMENDMENT ORAL ARGUMENTS TODAY - 2.8.24 Thu, 08 Feb 2024
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378 - TRUMP CONGRESSMEN CONFIRM HE'S DISQUALIFIED BY 14th AMENDMENT - 2.7.24 Wed, 07 Feb 2024
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377 - TRUMP'S RIGHT: IN BORDER BILL, 100% CHANCE OF REPUBLICAN TERRORISM - 2.6.24 Tue, 06 Feb 2024
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376 - BULLETIN: CHUTKAN POSTPONES TRUMP TRIAL INDEFINITELY - 2.2.24 Fri, 02 Feb 2024